Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford. Last week, the Ford Motor Co. and its numerous allied industries, including coal mines and lumber camps, announced the adoption of a five-day weekly schedule as a permanent policy. (The Ford railroads, however, will continue their regular schedule.) The eight- hour day is still in force, and the Ford workers are expected to make as much in five days as they formerly...
...resulted in a decrease of the total number of preferred and common holders from 53,097 (second quarter) to 47,805 (third quarter). The weak had sold, the strong had bought. The corporation now has some $180,000,000 in cash, second only to the balances of the Ford Motor Co. (reputedly...
Warsaw editors, resourceful, instantly covered their booming blunder. It was not the daughter of Henry Ford, they said, but his granddaughter, Josephine, who was engaged to marry Count Skrzynski. Warsavians, remembering the flight of the Josephine Ford over the Pole (TIME, May 17), accepted this new rumor, beamed anew...
Many presumed that Henry Ford was the billionaire. Not so Columnist Arthur Brisbane, who said: "This refers, perhaps, to Mr. Rockefeller, and he doesn't know how much he is worth. . . . Ford also is a billionaire. He has the income on at least four billions. . . . George F. Baker is a billionaire, probably also Mr. [Andrew W.] Mellon. At least the properties they own are actually worth more than a billion. However, all that interests the average American . . . is, how to get a modest little million or two, invest the amount safely, then live wisely and usefully...
...Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer: "Researchers W. A. Noel and Rudolph Hellbach of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reported, in the magazine Power (weekly), that they had run one of the regulation motors made at my factory, on sweepings from a grain elevator. Dust particles suspended in air will oxidize with explosion rapidity just as gas particles do. The experimenters had replaced the carburetor of their Ford motor with an arrangement of valves, pipes and a small fan, feeding the grain-dust by hand. Ignition was by spark plugs as usual, the electric current being controlled slightly differently from...